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Topic: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

• Antfunk
  
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  Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

  10 November 2017 at 11:20pm

  That doesn't make sense. There are 2 options. One to get rid of the sap and one to reduce it's armour by 4. Neither option tells you how much magic it uses. It just says you may use your magic. I beat the encounter and set a rule that every time I did one of those actions it reduced my maximum magic score by 1 point. I then used my brawn for damage score when not doing one of the above actions as instructed in the text.
• T-man
  
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  Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

  11 November 2017 at 5:04am

  You're right Antfunk, it never says you have to reduce your magic to do the non-damage causing action, either reduce your opponent's armor, or defeat the health-sapping saps. So I don't know why it says return your magic to normal. There will be future combats that reduce your brawn, magic or armor, then restore those at the end of combat like your health. I just interpreted as, it was a combat to test your worthiness as a mage, so you're definitely fighting with your magic instead of brawn. If you did reduce your magic, that would make the fight way too tough, since it's early in the book, and your max Health hasn't even been increased yet. I would say don't reduce your magic to do those actions, since you're passing up the chance to do damage.
• Antfunk
  
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  Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

  11 November 2017 at 9:09am

  Yeah I agree it's missing something. As it stands what I have been doing on encounters that have these grey areas is trying to pick the hardest choice. What I did here was use 1 magic point for each of the 2 actions as I used them. When pushing damages through I used my brawn score. Managed to kill it without firing. This game feels a lot more balanced than what I got through in the first game book as I have not died yet. I'm not going to use the term easy as I feel that it rewards gear and item choice better to enable you to win easier. I even managed to 1 shot the first achievement challenge I came across which was the zombies and not cheating or anything like that. Loving it so far!
• T-man
  
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  Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

  11 November 2017 at 9:31am

  Oh, I remember how tough it was beating the zombie horde in like five rounds without using abilities or backpack items. You get a really good item that you can equip or use it for something else.
• Antfunk
  
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  Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

  11 November 2017 at 10:09am

  Yeah I let him keep the item. Seems it would have been kinder not to though! Yeah I really like the achievement side. It's going to drive me crazy though if/when I fail one as I want to not cheat the game! I killed it on the very last turn available!
• Da Boss
  
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  Re: Fungulus encounter, (288, Heart of fire) missing rules text?

  13 November 2017 at 8:47am

  Sorry Antfunk, my mistake on my earlier response. I was going off (hazy) memory rather than rechecking the encounter.

  It is played as written.

  Blast the bile is used instead of rolling for damage, to simply blast all the sap creatures in play (once their damage is getting too high)

  Power pruning is the same as the above, but you are removing armour instead.

  There is no spending of magic points. Sorry, my bad! (That is more of a Book Four mechanic )